[Peace] AWARE flyer for Saturdays, monthly demonstration

[Karen Aram]

AWARE

Saturday April 13th, 

Downtown Champaign, corner of Neil and Church Streets

2:00 - 4:00pm

Flyer constructed by Carl Estabrook
Based upon “Just Foreign Policy” text

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> TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES:
> ASSERT YOUR WAR POWERS BEFORE TRUMP STRIKES SYRIA
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> Tell your Rep. to sign the Lofgren-Amash letter to stop an unconstitutional strike on Syria. 
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> The New York Times is reporting that Trump has warned Russia that U.S. missiles “will be coming” to Syria.  
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> But Senator Tim Kaine [D-VA] and Senator Mike Lee [R-UT] and the Congressional Progressive Caucus have a very different idea. 
> Under the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, Congress, not the President, decides when to use military force. 
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> The NYT reports: 'Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said Mr. Trump needed permission from Congress before action.
> “He’s a president, not a king, and Congress needs to quit giving him a blank check to wage war against anyone, anywhere,” Mr. Kaine said. 
> “If he strikes Syria without our approval, what will stop him from bombing North Korea or Iran?”’
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> The NYT’s Max Fisher justly mocked Washington’s 'cult of limited strikes’: "They accomplish nothing but unnecessary killing. 
> But Washington loves them anyway, because past experience doesn’t matter. When it comes to pointless uses of military force, 
> Washington culture is denialist: repeated failure doesn’t cause learning." 
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> Democrat or Republican, Congressional Representatives have an easy way to assert their war powers before Trump strikes Syria: 
> they can sign the bipartisan Lofgren-Amash letter to Trump, telling him to come to Congress for authorization before attacking Syria. 
> That’s what stopped unconstitutional military action in Syria in August 2013 – two hundred Democratic and Republican House members 
> signing letters to the President, saying under the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution, you have to come to us for authorization before striking Syria. 
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> Call CONGRESSMAN RODNEY DAVIS now at (202) 225-2371. When you reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say,  
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> “I urge you to defend the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. 
> Sign the bipartisan Lofgren-Amash letter insisting that President Trump
> get Congressional authorization before striking Syria.”
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> [Thanks to 'Just Foreign Policy' for the text above. This flyer is circulated by AWARE, a local peace group.]
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> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois>
> ~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ~
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> Our representatives in Congress from this area - and their email addresses - are as follows:
> Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
> Senator Tammy Duckworth: <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
> Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
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>>> On Apr 12, 2018, at 8:46 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Carl
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>>> I still have the generic flyers you created, for the panel discussion the Democrats put on at the IMC last month. Give the weather conditions this Saturday, handing out flyers maybe difficult, as pointed out by David. 
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>>> I suggest you not bother creating anything new for this weekend and use these instead. 
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>>> The title is “Our Government is Risking Nuclear War,” and the information related to the history of US wars is quite good, and appropriate for these times. 
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>>> I will bring them, unless you say otherwise.
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